The table below lists in order what percentage of people who gave the Greens their party vote, gave their electorate vote to the National candidate.

It is worth noting that not all electorates are equal. Where a seat had a Green MP as a candidate, few Green voters voted for the National candidate. Also in seats where Labour were trying to win the seat, many Greens voted tactically for the Labour candidate.

% of Gre PV voting Nat EV

Nat

Epsom

54.3%

Botany

34.5%

Bay of Plenty

33.5%

Pakuranga

33.0%

Tauranga

28.5%

Helensville

28.0%

Maungakiekie

25.6%

Papakura

25.3%

Taupo

24.9%

Hamilton West

24.7%

Clutha Southland

24.4%

Selwyn

23.4%

Rangitata

21.2%

Northcote

20.9%

Whangarei

20.8%

Tukituki

20.0%

Rotorua

20.0%

Waitaki

19.6%

Rangitikei

19.5%

Tamaki

19.4%

Hunua

19.3%

North Shore

19.3%

Nelson

18.6%

Whanganui

18.3%

East Coast Bays

18.2%

Waikato

18.2%

Napier

18.1%

Taranaki-King Country

18.1%

Hamilton East

17.6%

Invercargill

17.0%

Ilam

16.8%

Otaki

16.5%

Kaikoura

16.0%

Manurewa

15.4%

Northland

13.4%

Waitakere

13.0%

New Plymouth

12.7%

Mana

12.1%

Auckland Central

11.6%

Wairarapa

11.3%

Waimakariri

11.2%

Christchurch Central

11.1%

Rodney

10.9%

East Coast

8.3%

Rimutaka

8.0%

Coromandel

7.8%

Palmerston North

7.7%

Christchurch East

7.5%

Wigram

7.4%

Port Hills

7.2%

Mt Roskill

6.4%

Dunedin North

5.9%

Te Atatu

5.8%

Manukau East

5.7%

New Lynn

5.7%

Mangere

5.5%

Dunedin South

5.4%

Hutt South

5.4%

Ohariu

4.7%

West Coast Tasman

4.1%

Wellington Central

3.5%

Mt Albert

3.4%

Rongotai

2.7%

Epsom at the top is again no surprise, and represents tactical voting. It is interesting that more Green voters tactically voted than Labour voters. In hindsight standing Parker in Epsom was a mistake.

In seven other seats, the National candidate got more than 25% of Green voters.

The seat where the National candidate did best with Green voters, but did not win the seat was (excepting Epsom) Manurewa with 15.4%.

The seat where the National candidate got elected but got the fewest Green votes was Coromandel with 7.8%. Green MP Catherine Delahunty stood there.

The overall bottom seat for Greens voting for the National candidate was Rongotai where Russel Norman stood.

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Greens have no entrenched electorate mentality, their electorate vote is pretty much a free vote as they don’t care about it for their party.

A green supporter recently posted that we should do away with electorates because the list was all that mattered and electorate MPs were bad for constituents. That may or may not be typical of greens but in any case there’s nothing stopping them being promiscuous with their electorate vote.

For all their wailing and gnashing of teeth on tactical voting and stitch-ups, they tried their darndest to have Nikke Kaye lose in Auckland Central and for John Banks to lose in Epsom, through stitch-ups and tactical voting, and IT STILL FAILED.